The University of Cambridge

News about The University of Cambridge, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 12, 2015

Men's and women's rowing crews from Oxford and Cambridge race on same course and day for first time. MORE

Aug. 2, 2014

Works of Siegfried Sassoon, World War I soldier considered by some to be the most innocent of Britain’s war poets, have been made available online by Cambridge University Library Project; archive showcases 4,100 handwritten pages from Sassoon's notebooks, written near battlefields in northern France. MORE

Mar. 27, 2014

Oxford and Cambridge women’s boating teams, which historically have raced on a different day and stretch of the Thames from the men, will face off this spring for the last time on this course; starting in 2015, women will race shortly before men on championship course on the Tideway. MORE

Apr. 9, 2012

Memo from London; annual Oxford-Cambridge boat race along a historic stretch of the Thames in London is disrupted after protester swims directly in the path of two boats to protest elitism of the event; incident revives old national debate over issues of class privilege. MORE

Mar. 17, 2012

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams announces that he will resign at the end of 2012; he will accept position as master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, returning to academic life that he left on his first appointment as bishop more than 20 years ago. MORE

Mar. 7, 2012

Cambridge Union Women’s Campaign, upset that Dominique Strauss-Kahn will speak at Cambridge University, invites Douglas Wigdor, the lawyer for the New York hotel maid who accused Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault, to speak the same day. MORE

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The gender barrier in one of England’s oldest sporting events was broken Saturday when the men’s and women’s rowing crews from Oxford and Cambridge raced over the same course on the same day for the first time.